The Concrete Society Awards celebrate excellence in the use of concrete. The design and construction methods of the submitted projects are carefully considered in person by the judges and the winning projects are announced at The Society's flagship annual event, The Concrete Society Awards Dinner, which is now entering its 55th year.
Below are details of the 2024 winners:
- Outright winner
- Highly commended projects
- Shortlisted entries
Outright winner: Whiteleys Redevelopment, Bayswater, London
The Whiteley is the large-scale reimagining of the former Whiteleys shopping centre in London’s Bayswater. This huge restoration project includes the construction of a deep three-level basement and a ten-storey superstructure mixed residential and retail space, set behind a retained and refurbished Grade II-listed façade.
Highly commended: Everton FC Stadium, Bramley Moore Dock
Rising from the banks of the River Mersey at Bramley Moore Dock, the new 52,888-seater stadium comprises over 14,000 precast concrete units – from innovative double-terracing to the columns, beams, twin walls, lattice slabs and façade panels. Combining meticulous BIM and innovative precast, the end result is a once-in-a-generation stadium.
Highly commended: Lost Shore Surf Resort, Edinburgh
Craigpark Quarry, Edinburgh, was an infilled quarry that had been partly remediated into a country park. The accessible location has now been redeveloped to provide a leisure resort and Europe’s largest wave pool – 23,500m3 in area – with 50 million litres of retained water in a 10,500m3 water-resistant reinforced concrete structure. With a heavily designed and detailed structure to resist shrinkage, it required a specialist selection of materials, testing and mix design.
Highly commended: Reciprocal House, Hampstead, London
This new four-storey house was designed to complement Foster Associates’ lightweight single-storey structure of steel, concrete blocks and large-span glazing. The industrial character has been retained, with the elemental quality of the new house evident in the highly effective palette of timeless materials – primarily concrete, aluminium and glass.
Highly commended: The Peninsula London, Belgravia
The Peninsula London is a project of exceptional quality, delivering the most significant hotel and residences in London in recent times. Concrete was the material of choice for the structure of the building from very early in the design process. The project embraced top-down construction for the basement areas, post-tensioned concrete flat slabs for the upper floors and precast concrete for the façades.
Highly commended: TTP Campus, Melbourn
The single-storey TTP Campus has been moulded to the non-hierarchical ethos of TTP and its passion for invention. Its exposed concrete design maximises openness and flexibility, providing high energy efficiency and minimising structural loads.
Shortlisted: Coastguard to Colonnade Phase 2b, Dawlish
In 2014, storms caused a seawall collapse in Dawlish with severe damage to the railway, causing a closure that had a £1.2 billion impact on the south-west economy. Significant repair works have taken place over a number of years. Phase 2B comprised seawall, promenade and train station improvements.
Shortlisted: Maldron Hotel, Manchester
Maldron Hotel responded to market demand for a leisure-focused hotel, within Manchester city centre. The strategy and use of concrete respond to the characteristics found in the material and details of neighbouring buildings, within the adjacent conservation area.
Shortlisted: Mercia Park, Swadlincote
Mercia Park is a 325,000m2 manufacturing and logistics development situated at a strategic location off the M42. The project is large in scale and involves 93,000m3 of reinforced concrete. As part of its sustainability goals, the project achieved a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’ and has a social value programme centred on skills, training and community funding.
Shortlisted: QBS Student Hub, Queen’s University Belfast
Queen’s University Belfast’s new Student Hub sits within the Business School campus, Riddel Hall in the south of the city. The building contains differing types and sizes of teaching and learning accommodation, together with informal study areas, academic offices and shared spaces. The building sensitively embeds a four-storey facility in a mature parkland adjacent to a Grade II-listed building.
Shortlisted: The Quadrangle Building, King’s College London
The Quadrangle Building for King’s College London creates an inspiring example of how to maximise a constrained site by intelligently integrating a series of new-build concrete elements sensitively into the Grade I-listed historical context, creating a sustainable building that is robust and flexible in its use.
Shortlisted: University of York Student Residences
The University of York Student Residences spans across two residential colleges, creating 1480 student residences. The design reinterprets the 1960s Campus West with light-coloured concrete façades and bespoke acid-etched murals. Precast concrete facilitated high-quality and high-performing accommodation with wellbeing at its core.
